noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
long
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Even a long crêpe streamer will straighten a spinning kite.
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The male has two long tail streamers , and females prefer the males with the longest streamers.
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Smoke trailed in long streamers drifting off to the west.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Paper streamers like coiled fuses were scattered between the plates and wine bottles.
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Readily distinguished by rufous-buff rump and chestnut nape; no white spots in tail streamers.
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The male has two long tail streamers, and females prefer the males with the longest streamers.
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The reconnection is very similar to that described above for the helmet streamer , although time and size scales are smaller.
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They put up streamers and got hats and baked a couple of cakes.
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Treswell was probably an arms painter, for he painted streamers and banners for several City companies.
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We were cutting off from each other, streamer by streamer.